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The Aesthetics of Silence in the Works of Federico Mompou, Chou Wen Chung, and George Crumb

Wang, Serena
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378195060

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2013, M.M., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Music History.
With 4'33" John Cage brought silence to the forefront of musical discourse. The avant-garde composer engaged with and promoted “silence” at an unprecedented level, but silence beyond Cage, in my opinion, has not received adequate coverage. This thesis engages in the aesthetics of silence in the twentieth century. Treating silence as a compositional tool and musical style, I examine silence’s different manifestations in the instrumental works by Federico Mompou (1893–1987), Chou Wen-Chung (b. 1923), and George Crumb (b. 1929). I begin by defining different manifestations and functions of silence, among which are structural, rhetorical, and metaphorical silences. The remainder of the thesis consists of case studies where I interpret these silences based on the musical, cultural, and biographical contexts. The case studies include Mompou’s first collection of Musica callada (1959); Chou’s String Quartet No. 1, “Clouds” (1996); and Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening (1974).
Jeongwon Joe, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Steven Cahn, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
bruce mcclung, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
92 p.
Music
silence; Chou Wen-Chung; John Cage; Musica callada; George Crumb; Taoism

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  • Wang, S. (2013). The Aesthetics of Silence in the Works of Federico Mompou, Chou Wen Chung, and George Crumb [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378195060

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wang, Serena. The Aesthetics of Silence in the Works of Federico Mompou, Chou Wen Chung, and George Crumb. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378195060.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wang, Serena. "The Aesthetics of Silence in the Works of Federico Mompou, Chou Wen Chung, and George Crumb." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378195060

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